{"id":2654,"date":"2023-09-24T00:03:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T04:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2023-09-24T00:03:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T04:03:17","slug":"saturday-september-23-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklinhaas.com\/wordpress\/saturday-september-23-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, September 23, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Temps in the 50s, mostly cloudy, wind W 5-15 mph<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weather, Sept 23, 2023<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Not many photo ops today, but a couple of good birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went down to Finger Creek first thing this morning. Didn’t have anything new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the way back I stopped at the South Quarry where there were numerous Snow Buntings flitting about. I had stopped here on the 17th and had none. Then on the 19th there were a couple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I was sitting there enjoying the show, Aaron pulled up and informed me that they just had a Merlin at the North quarry (chasing Snow Buntings!). He said it flew off in this direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merlin would be an Adak bird for me. Alas, I did not relocate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also at the North quarry, on Lake Leone, one of the Tufted Ducks was present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back up in town, I saw the Gyrfalcon, but it vanished before I could grab the camera and jump out of the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gerry and Linda left today. Aaron’s group will be here until Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I worked my way up to Clam Lagoon and, just as Aaron’s group arrived, realized I had left my radio at the house. So I raced back to town, got the radio, and sped back up to the lagoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No sooner had I re-established radio-contact than Aaron told me they were looking at a Steller’s Eider!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had one here before, but what a great trip bird it would be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went to their location (South Lookout) and saw it in the scope. I later measured the distance on a map. It was 1235 feet away. With heat waves! I never would have picked it out myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I got around to the east side of the lagoon, I looked for it again (a little closer) but could not find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will leave you today with a photo of the Adak Geyser. They call it Old Not Faithful, as it is totally unpredictable and I never had a photo-op before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Or maybe it is just a broken water pipe down by Finger Bay…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trip List is 56! and The Year List is 82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see today’s eBird list at https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S150609995<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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